Iran: Attack on Syria is an attack on us

Looks like they've adopted Rand's foreign policy ??

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran considers any attack against Syria an attack on itself, an advisor to the Islamic Republic's supreme leader was quoted as saying Saturday, the strongest warning to date by a top Iranian official that Tehran will use any available means to keep the regime of President Bashar Assad in power.

Ali Akbar Velayati, an aide to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Syria plays a major role in the "resistance front" of anti-Israel states and militant groups.

"Syria plays a very key role in supporting, or God forbid destabilizing, the resistance front. For this same reason, attack on Syria is considered attack on Iran and Iran's allies," Velayati was quoted by the semiofficial Mehr news agency as saying.

Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
Ron Paul 2004

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran considers any attack against Syria an attack on itself, an advisor to the Islamic Republic's supreme leader was quoted as saying Saturday, the strongest warning to date by a top Iranian official that Tehran will use any available means to keep the regime of President Bashar Assad in power.

Ali Akbar Velayati, an aide to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Syria plays a major role in the "resistance front" of anti-Israel states and militant groups.

"Syria plays a very key role in supporting, or God forbid destabilizing, the resistance front. For this same reason, attack on Syria is considered attack on Iran and Iran's allies," Velayati was quoted by the semiofficial Mehr news agency as saying.

It would be an entangling alliance..
Something our founders warned about.

Not sure if their founders said anything about it.
But Iran has not invaded anyone for hundreds of years. That can not be said for any of the other players.

Last edited by pcosmar; 01-28-2013 at 10:37 PM.

Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
Ron Paul 2004

Rand says this about Israel and he "is kissing the ass of the Israel lobby".

So by extension Iran is kissing the ass of the Syria lobby.

Or does this sort of stuff only apply to Americans? How come it's not interventionism when they do it?

Who said it's not interventionism when they do it? And no - this sort of stuff does not only apply to Americans.

But as an American living in America I am much more concerned about the American government's depredations than I am about the Iranian government's.

After all, it's not Ahmedinejad's bosses (or their Syrian buddies) who are stealing my money to fund their obstreperously wretched bloody-mindedness ...

"A free man must be able to endure it when his fellow men act and live otherwise than he considers proper. He must free himself from the habit, just as soon as something does not please him, of calling for the police." -- Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism (p. 55)

"The evil that a man inflicts on his fellow man injures both - not only the one to whom it is done, but also the one who does it. Nothing corrupts a man so much as being an arm of the law and making men suffer. The lot of the subject is anxiety, a spirit of servility and fawning adulation; but the pharisaical self-righteousness, conceit, and arrogance of the master are no better. [...] The criminal has incurred the penalties of the law, but not the hate and sadism of the judge, the policeman, and the ever lynch-thirsty mob." -- Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism (p. 58) [bold emphasis added]

Rand says this about Israel and he "is kissing the ass of the Israel lobby".

So by extension Iran is kissing the ass of the Syria lobby.

Or does this sort of stuff only apply to Americans? How come it's not interventionism when they do it?

It is. My question in turn would be why tf would I care what countries Iran wants to intervene in? Good for Iran. Good for Syria. Good for us if we'd ever get the f out the region... Oh and $#@! Israel. They can defend themselves..... or not. It's not really my business one way or another what they decide to do.

Last edited by kcchiefs6465; 01-29-2013 at 12:25 AM.

“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.” --George Orwell

Originally Posted by AuH20

In terms of a full spectrum candidate, Rand is leaps and bounds above Trump. I'm not disputing that.

Who else in public life has called for a pre-emptive strike on North Korea?--Donald Trump